The exhibition revisits the role of mythology in Madrid's art of the eighties, centering on the work of Ouka Leele and her dialogue with artists such as El Hortelano, Ceesepe, Carlos Franco, Sigfrido Martín Begué, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Dis Berlin, Pablo Sycet, Carlos Alcolea, Costus, and Patricia Gadea, among others.

The starting point is Rappelle-toi, Barbara!, Ouka Leele's intervention at the Cibeles Fountain in 1987, where she theatricalized the myth of Hippomenes and Atalanta. From there, the show connects photography, painting, pop culture, comics, fanzines, performance, and classical tradition to explain how the Movida generation created a new visual mythology for Madrid.

The exhibition brings together more than one hundred works and proposes a crossover between ancient myths and contemporary language: gods, heroes, urban icons, theatrical bodies, fantasy, counterculture, and a city that, after the Transition, needed to imagine itself in a different way.

Because it allows one to look at the Movida beyond the cliché of partying, nightlife, and provocation.

Modern Mythologies shows these artists as builders of historical images: they were not just celebrating a new freedom, they were also looking for symbols to explain a city and a country in transformation. Classical mythology served them as an ancient repertoire to think through a completely new present.

For Artlovers, it is worth it because it beautifully connects three layers of Madrid: art, the street, and myth. And because Ouka Leele appears here not only as an iconic photographer, but as an artist capable of turning the city into a poetic stage.

Start by thinking of Cibeles.

Do not visit the exhibition merely as a show about the eighties. See it as a way to understand how Madrid created its own modern gods: artists, images, public gestures, bodies, colors, nights, fountains, and scenes that are still part of the city's imaginary.

After seeing it, walk towards Cibeles. The exhibition works best when you leave the room and realize that part of the myth continues outside, in the street.